[American Thinker] As cities burn and statues come down, many want you to believe that U.S. is doomed or that the leftist mobs will tear down every sign of traditional values.
Yes, some monuments will be vandalized and buildings burned down.
But eventually, the storyline will change.
What we are really watching is the collapse of "blue districts" and cities.
For years, we've heard that "racism" or poverty excuses. Yet the story is very different. The issue is not really racism, but dysfunctional societies run by Democrats, as Angela Kelley wrote:
Poverty is not, as the Left would have us believe, owing to a lack of social safety-net funding. "According to the U.S Department of Energy's Residential Energy Consumption Survey... Over 99 percent [of those classified below the poverty level] have a refrigerator, television, and stove or oven. Eighty-one percent have a microwave; 75 percent have air conditioning; 67 percent have a second TV; 64 percent have a clothes washer; 38 percent have a personal computer." In the United States, most poor people (over 80 percent) have cell phones. People are not living in abject poverty as they do in third world countries, where people are starved for the basic necessities of food, clothing, clean water, and housing.
And let's not ignore the problem of absentee fathers. Psychology Today notes that children without fathers in their home are susceptible to "diminished self-concept and compromised physical and emotional security, behavioral problems, truancy and poor academic performance, delinquency and youth crime, including violent crime, promiscuity, and teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness, exploitation and abuse, physical health problems, mental health disorders, life chances, future relationships, [and] mortality."
In Illinois, 23 percent of one-parent households are headed by Caucasians. By comparison, 39 percent of Hispanic/Latino households and a whopping 73 percent of African American households are single-parent homes. The numbers are fairly consistent in states with the largest cities. In New York, 64 percent of African-Americans come from single-parent households; in Minnesota, it's 50 percent; in Pennsylvania, it's 71 percent; in California, it's 62 percent, and in Washington, D.C., it is a disturbing 78 percent.
The largest cities in these states have been run by Democrats for years.
Yes, they have.
The bad news is that there will be more accusations of racism and riots. The good news is that we are watching the end of these cities, and that's good for African-Americans hoping for a better life.
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In Illinois, 23 percent of one-parent households are headed by Caucasians. By comparison, 39 percent of Hispanic/Latino households and a whopping 73 percent of African American households are single-parent homes. The numbers are fairly consistent in states with the largest cities. In New York, 64 percent of African-Americans come from single-parent households; in Minnesota, it's 50 percent; in Pennsylvania, it's 71 percent; in California, it's 62 percent, and in Washington, D.C., it is a disturbing 78 percent.
All made possible by the "Great" Society programs of the 60s. You get more of what you subsidize. Gee, I wonder what party thought that one up too? (/rhet question) The formalization of driving around and passing out money on election day.
[FOX] As I was talking Thursday with John Heubusch, the brilliant and dedicated executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, it was really driven home to me what a dangerous period we are living through.
The Reagan Institute is one of the great institutions dedicated to preserving and teaching about the past. Its library and historic collection of exhibits about President and Mrs. Reagan are enormously helpful to historians and the public. Its education program for young people teaches them interactively by using real events in the Reagan presidency. It is a genuine national asset.
Yet, as we were talking about my new book, "Trump and the American Future: Solving the Great Problems of Our Time," it hit me that the existence of this extraordinary library is potentially in peril.
The mobs which are mindlessly wandering the streets of America toppling statues and defacing monuments are reinforced by the academic mob which wants to cleanse libraries of books it deems inappropriate.
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Focusing American on justice rather than Just Us. That would be novel.
Haven't yet seen any prosecutions of the cabal conspiracy members who tried to take down a duly elected president. Seems like CNN has hired most of these boneheads.
[Free Beacon] Tennessee lawmakers on Friday passed a "heartbeat bill" banning abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected—a regulation on abortion that has run into legal challenges in several states.
The bill makes any abortion performed after a fetal heartbeat is detected a felony. Detection of the fetal heartbeat generally occurs six weeks into a pregnancy, and the bill prohibits abortions based on a fetus's race, sex, or disability.
The bill also creates exceptions for situations where the health of the mother is in danger.
Tennessee governor Bill Lee (R.) cheered the passage of the bill, which is awaiting his signature, on Twitter.
Interesting excerpt:
[Strategic Culture Foundation] The Five Eyes grew out of these British imperial operations which essentially followed the mandate set out by Cecil Rhodes in his 7th Will calling for a new global British Empire and recapturing of the lost colony. In his will, Rhodes asks:
"Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, and for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire..."
Later on in his will Rhodes stated: "Let us form the same kind of society, a Church for the extension of the British Empire. A society which should have its members in every part of the British Empire working with one object and one idea we should have its members placed at our universities and our schools and should watch the English youth passing through their hands just one perhaps in every thousand would have the mind and feelings for such an object, he should be tried in every way, he should be tested whether he is endurant, possessed of eloquence, disregardful of the petty details of life, and if found to be such, then elected and bound by oath to serve for the rest of his life in his Country. He should then be supported if without means by the Society and sent to that part of the Empire where it was felt he was needed."
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Notice as the 'Empire' has retreated how many of the 'old' places certainly haven't taken off to join the ranks of first world countries. New boss, like the (pre-empire) old boss, just better threads and toys.
[SHTFplan] We should all be prepared for what’s coming next. In order to prepare effectively, we need to know what will happen when the economy finally collapses under its own weight. The creation of money out of thin air could only go on for so long, and we are approaching the end.
Epic Economist put together a great video detailing the 15 things (and yes, some are a little scary) that will happen when the economy collapses. At this point in time and history, it is no surprise that an economic collapse is coming for us. When the world’s largest economy is deep down in a recession, many other countries will not be late to follow the same path.
The financial breakdown the world is about to face over the next few years will be an unprecedented catastrophe, especially considering that the underlying problems from previous crashes were never fixed, only mended together. A real repair would require a complete restructuration in the system, and the elites were never interested in fixing the system that they set up to screw the rest of us.
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I've lived outdoors recreationally and paid perfectly good money to take a chance on drowning on whitewater rivers (can I even say whitewater now?) I've killed and cooked my own food. Actually made an improvised shelter or two. I like my chances better than Meggie Moo's or Brian Stelter's.
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Welcome to the 19th Century
1. Everything will become local.
2. If you are a minority, you are screwed.
3. Power will go to those who do, not those who talk.
4. Suddenly, the people decide what's essential not politicians.
5. Those who protected the 2d Amendment will have a far greater chance to survive than those who didn't.
6. Warehousing of sociopaths will be unsupportable. Threats to what remains of society will be dealt with in a manner to eliminate recidivism.
[Townhall] Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream company, is calling on Americans to defund and dismantle the so-called "racist" police. The company made the demand in a tweet that included an image of ice cream representing the country's police budget being scooped into smaller bowls representing various welfare programs, like "affordable housing" and "substance-abuse treatment." The same company that can't figure out how to get glyphosate, the weed-killing ingredient found in Roundup, out of their ice cream is now telling us how to police our streets.
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I've never ingested any of their product. Never will.
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Ben & Jerry's push the good non-dairy ice-cream soy-delicious coconut-milk out of Jewel-Osco and replaced it with some non-dairy crap they make. Why would I want to spend one penny on something those leftist a-holes sell?
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They’ve long donated 10% of their profits to Progressive causes. They, at least, are being consistent here, even if the company was sold to Unilever about five years ago.
[The Daily Beest] As one of the very few left-leaning personalities still left on Fox News, Juan Williams has never fit in very well with his co-hosts on The Five. That division was laid bare Thursday afternoon when Williams managed to speak uninterrupted for more than a few seconds and left his colleagues speechless.
The dramatic moment came at what ended up being the final seconds of a segment about Black Lives Matter protesters in Olympia, Washington and the "woke vandals" who damaged the home of that city’s mayor.
For the vast majority segment, Williams couldn’t get a word in edgewise as Jesse Watters whined about the "circular firing squad" of activists and politicians on the left. Or as Dana Perino put it, "The mob giveth and the mob taketh away."
It wasn’t until almost six minutes in that moderator Greg Gutfeld finally turned to the panel’s only black commentator to "take us home."
"Well, you know, my take on this is a little different than the rest of the gang," Williams began. "Because to me, it comes down to one point. Americans have the right to a peaceful protest, to a peaceful assembly."
Of course they do. But Antifa and Black Lives Matter are working on the violent overthrow of the American government, which is not among the enumerated or implied rights Americans have.
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Yes, yes, and if you don't realize FauxNews is choreographed and totally on board with the corporate stepin fetchit mentality now then sit back and lap it up.
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Based on historical data, if Juan Williams left his co-hosts speechless, it was because he said something even more stupid than usual.
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Juan was a sop to "Fair[ly] and [un]balanced after he got canned from NPR. I always thought he was being presented as a "foil" (always could be counted on to present the Dem talking points) on Faux.
[Daily Wire] Is Joe Biden experiencing dementia? That’s a question the pollsters at Zogby International posed to 1,007 "likely voters."
The results were surprising: 55% said they think the former vice president, 77, "is in the early stages of dementia."
"Overall, subgroups who normally approve of Trump’s job as president, were the most likely to believe Biden could be suffering from dementia," the poll found. "Thus, majorities of Republicans (77% more likely/23% less likely) and Independents (56% more likely/44% less likely) thought Joe Biden had early-onset dementia; while nearly a third of Democrats (32% more likely/68% less likely) thought this was the case."
"At the same time, some important subgroups did not believe the vice president was exhibiting a declining mental capacity. While a majority of men (60% more likely/40% less likely) thought it this was likely, women (50% more likely/50% less likely) were less likely to think that the vice president was in the early stages of dementia," Zogby International wrote.
[Breitbart] Appearing Friday on CNN’s The Lead, Black Lives Matter Global Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors said President Donald Trump should resign from office immediately and said, "our goal is to get Trump out."
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Ms. Cullors should at least be given some credit for her honesty. BLM is a militant arm of the Democratic party. It has very little to do with the actual lives of African Americans. BLM is simply a political cover for action.
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But she really needs to remember the lessons of Ernest Rohm. Also, BLM and Antifa being the SA look-alikes should note that the SA lost out to the SS.
[NYPOST] America is burning. Rioters set fire to cop shoppes and restaurants. Looters have ravaged shops from coast to coast. And now they’re coming for the statues — not just of Confederate generals, but the republic’s Founders, including George Washington, whose statue was torn down in Portland, Ore.
Call them the 1619 riots.
The justified indignation over George Floyd’s killing has led to calls for policing reform and for the country to do better at fulfilling its principles. But the reaction hasn’t stopped with those worthy and noble objectives. It has surged well beyond to an attack on the principles themselves, which allegedly give rise to "systemic racism."
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[NYPOST] We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
All Americans, and lovers of liberty everywhere, should celebrate those words — the most radical message in human history — and their author. The drive to remove his statue from City Hall (or anywhere else) is contemptible.
That Thomas Jefferson to his own shame failed to live up to those ideals, owning slaves to his dying day, is beside the point: No one honors him for that.
Ousting Jefferson would send a message — but not one of tolerance or a commitment to racial justice. At best, it is about appeasing the ignorant and the horribly mistaken, who’ve convinced themselves that Jefferson’s ideals, and America’s, have always been nothing but a sham.
No matter that, echoing down the ages, Jefferson’s words and ideas, and those of his fellow Founders, have slowly inspired this nation to become better — to move closer to living as free and equal men and women.
The Death Eaters don’t care. High on their own righteousness, they’re demanding scalps — defunded police, dethroned statues — to prolong the buzz.
With their letter asking for Jefferson’s removal from the City Council chamber, Speaker Corey Johnson and several colleagues are at best playing along out of pure ambition, looking to ride the furious wave to greater power.
Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... has opted to punt the issue to another commission led by his wife, charged with pondering a whole new wave of monument removals, building renamings, etc. — which adds up to stalling until he can see how the wind is blowing in the long term.
Sorry: The only honorable answer to the speaker’s request is a firm, hard No.
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Thomas Jefferson of the cut and paste (literally) Bible and admiration for the French Revolution. I won't miss him.
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[BabylonBee] When ballparks finally open again, those standing for the traditional seventh-inning stretch will be singing some different lyrics to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
After over 100 years of selling its caramel popcorn snack under the name Cracker Jack, Frito-Lay announced today that it would be rebranded as the less offensive "Caucasian Jack."
"We are very sorry to all the crack---er, I mean, Caucasians we have hurt over the years," said a spokesperson.
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Irony is, a cracker is a person from a particular geographic and social background. I'm not a cracker nor a descendant. Calling me a cracker is about like calling me a Swede or a Lithuanian. Incorrect and no skin off my butt.
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If words have power, leave it to the illiterate to latch onto the powerless ones.
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Not this morning Bee.
You got me with: "'CBS wants a race war': Outlet slammed for headline saying police killed black man while leaving out he reportedly fired first." Thought that one was the Bee and it wasn't.
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Waiting for Glenn Miller's 'Chatanooga Choo Choo' to gain attention for at least 2 references to the term 'boy.'
Shoe shine and train information requests.
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You be talkin' dat etymology sh*t now. Dat ain't ebonics. GTFO, cracker...
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Looked it up last night after seeing it in the Bee. From Merriam-Webster:
The late 19th-century pairing of crack and jack to form crackerjack topped off a long history for those words. Cracker is an elongation of crack, an adjective meaning "expert" or "superior" that dates from the 18th century. Prior to that, crack was a noun meaning "something superior" and a verb meaning "to boast." (The verb use evolved from the expression "to crack a boast," which came from the sense of crack meaning "to make a loud sharp sound.") Jack has been used for "man" since the mid-1500s, as in "jack-of-all-trades." Crackerjack entered English first as a noun referring to "a person or thing of marked excellence," then as an adjective. You may also know Cracker Jack as a snack of candied popcorn and peanuts. That trademarked name dates from the 1890s.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] As cities burn and statues come down, many want you to believe that U.S. is doomed or that the leftist mobs will tear down every sign of traditional values. 
[Free Beacon] Tennessee lawmakers on Friday passed a "heartbeat bill" banning abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected—a regulation on abortion that has run into legal challenges in several states.
[SHTFplan] We should all be prepared for what’s coming next. In order to prepare effectively, we need to know what will happen when the economy finally collapses under its own weight. The creation of money out of thin air could only go on for so long, and we are approaching the end.
[Townhall] Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream company, is calling on Americans to defund and dismantle the so-called "racist" police. The company made the demand in a tweet that included an image of ice cream representing the country's police budget being scooped into smaller bowls representing various welfare programs, like "affordable housing" and "substance-abuse treatment." The same company that can't figure out how to get glyphosate, the weed-killing ingredient found in Roundup, out of their ice cream is now telling us how to police our streets.
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
